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Obama's Plan To Seize Control Of Our Economy And Our Lives

President Obama has made clear that he’s determined to continue pushing his “progressive” agenda, regardless of constitutional limitations on his power. He aims to have his way by issuing more and more executive orders.

The most ominous sign of possible things to come appeared on March 16, 2012, when President Obama signed executive order 13603 about “National Defense Resources Preparedness.”

This 10-page document is a blueprint for a federal takeover of the economy that would dwarf the looming Obamacare takeover of the health insurance business. Specifically, Obama’s plan involves seizing control of:

* “All commodities and products that are capable of being ingested by either human beings or animals”

To be sure, much of this language has appeared in national security executive orders that previous presidents have issued periodically since the beginning of the Cold War.

But more than previous national security executive orders, Obama’s 13603 seems to describe a potentially totalitarian regime obsessed with control over everything. Obama’s executive order makes no effort to justify the destruction of liberty, no effort to explain how amassing totalitarian control would enable government to deal effectively with cyber sabotage, suicide bombings, chemical warfare, nuclear missiles or other possible threats. It’s quite likely there would be greater difficulty responding to threats, since totalitarian regimes suffer from economic chaos, colossal waste, massive corruption and bureaucratic infighting that are inevitable consequences of extreme centralization. Such problems plagued fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, communist China and other regimes. Totalitarian control would probably trigger resistance movements and underground networks like those that developed in Western Europe during the Nazi occupation. Totalitarian control could provoke more political turmoil than there was in the Vietnam War era of the 1960s. There would probably be a serious brain drain as talented people with critical skills escaped to freedom wherever that might be. Canada?

There’s nothing in executive order 13603 about upholding the Constitution or protecting civil liberties.

Obama’s executive order seems to assume that the next war will be like World War II or World War I, where vast armies of unskilled conscripts went at each other. But current trends suggest that future conflicts are more likely to involve smaller numbers of military personnel – highly-trained professionals, perhaps thousands of miles away from a battlefield, who remotely-control drones, pilotless combat helicopters, unmanned ground vehicles, unmanned ships, mobile security robots and related military technologies.

Even if Obama’s 13603 were no different than previous national security executive orders, it’s more worrisome because it was issued by the president who rammed Obamacare and runaway spending bills through Congress, who racked up $5 trillion of debt and surrounded himself with hardcore “progressives” hostile to the private sector and America as we have known it.

In what circumstances, one might ask, would a president try to carry out this audacious plan?

Executive order 13603 says with ominous ambiguity: during “the full spectrum of emergencies.”

Well, the United States is already in a state of national emergency declared by President George W. Bush on September 14, 2001 and extended last year by President Obama.

To better understand the potentially explosive impact of his plan, let’s take a tour through the dark world of executive orders, a type of presidential power that most people know little, if anything, about.

Many presidents have pushed to expand their power beyond constitutional limits, particularly during crises. Issuing executive orders is the easiest way to do it. A president doesn’t have to propose an executive order, debate the issues, endure hearings or solicit votes. An executive order can be issued in a few minutes — behind closed doors and away from bright lights.

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It is encouraging to read of the reversal of the Clinton and Truman EO’s. But do we have this degree of intellectual integrity on our current Supreme Court? One in which the Chief Justice acted as if he were representing the Government? I recall he created an argument and then agreed with it: that the fine for non-purchase of Health Insurance is a tax. No matter what he says words have meanings! A fine is not a Tax! If the words are interchangeable then every Tax claim is as an indictment. At every turn a sales tax can be litigated as it is the same as a fine, which is the result of the conviction of a crime. We must all become Attorneys.

Its obvious what Obama wants to do, yet people are going ot vote for him, h eis a usurper and anything he signs is null and void anyway so I am no tworrying aobut using his healthcare, his is not vbalid, nothing he signs is valid. If everytime he ordered soemthing ridiculous, like a new war, everyone shoudl just say no, he is not eligibel and he can’t legally send men and women ot their deaths , b ut the Senate and the Congress and the Supreme court are allowing it, by not having a citizens arrest or a class action suit we are aiding and abetting all of his actios, the Government lets avnything go on, it doesn’t matter , as long as they don’t get in trouble with the Rothchilds,m even though small countries are kicking them out on thier behinds we continue ot bend over for them. Mitt Romney said he will repeal eveerything Obama has done, well thats great except he is a usurper too, he can’t sign anything either let alone repeal anything, this is the first time in History this has ever happened and I dont’ blacme the usurpers, I blame the men in office who allowed it. Obama is still giving our industries and jobs ot China, no one is stopping him, he is not oging ot tell us what to do anymore, I myslef will perform a citizens arrest along with a hundred or so other people and the Sheriff, thats that. Someone get rid of the UN and we’ll be all set. I can’t understand anyone being horrified at what Obama will do , why are you surprised, no one saw this coming? The Rothchilds are listened to by whom? the little numbskulls in office who are trying to hang on to their jobs? they will be gone anyway, no one is getting away wiht this now or in the future, it has to end somehere. Bill Gates can also be arrested for threatening my very life everytime he opens his mouth, he is a frightening person, money has damaged his brain and I am thinking of suing him. . Yes we have two usurpers and every media person out there avoids it and calls him Mr. President, he is not Mr. President, he is Mr. Usurper. Why won’t anyone admit that? cowards.

George Soros, the Democratic White House media group and Media Matters controled from Chicago Obama Campaign issue the daily news to support the POTUS and his failed campaign of trying to disqualify Mitt Romney with deception and word art. Saying the same things by all the news media does not make it true.

Mid east foreign policy:”A movie caused these peaceful people to disrespect America” HA!

These folks have been poducing this full feature tale presented on the nightly news for almost (4) four years.

After 4 years of Obama, this country REALLY needs some R&R!! / ROMNEY / RYAN 2012!!

This poorly written and biased article seems to ignore the fact that the Romney camp and Republican leaders are pretty much on board with these types of things. They only cry about it when the other side gets to push the button instead of them.

Both parties are corrupt and working against the interests of the the American people.

Both parties should be disbanded, and their leaders rounded up and hung for treason.

I found this to be a very well written and illuminating article. My only quibble is with the title. I think that the title’s focus on President Obama as the evil one with a plan takes the focus away from the article’s true value and much wider picture.

I believe that after one reads the article that it should be evident that what the author has a problem with is the “imperial presidency”. It is amazing to see that the practise of American Presidents issuing proclamations/executive orders has its beginning with America’s very first president isssuing the innocent proclamation that the nation should have one day for giving thanks.

What I find most amazing is that the executive branch of the U.S. government has for so long been able to get away with not just exercising a power that the U.S. Constitution does not provide but also having this non-existent power upheld by the courts and congress.

I personally think that it is dangerous that a president can issue an all encompassing law that over turns the nation’s Constitution and is to be just placed on the shelf for the day when it “may” be needed. That is very much the behaviour of a despot, but then that is the nature of executive orders.